Woman's Best Friend

Just like any other woman in this planet, diamond is considered as something very precious as diamond is in the category of a precious stone. The shine that it reflects from every side seems to blinded everyone to race to get them. Perhaps because I live in a country without a huge diamond mines I don’t have to experience such brutality like the children in Africa who are taught of violence since they were at young age. The movie “Blood Diamond” shows the brutality happens in African diamond mine; the view of violence is everywhere. Ed Zwick’s movies always been a blast, and this time, he did it again. The set in Sierra Leone during the 1990’s civil war was made perfectly and which made this movie very captivating and it feels like I am involved in the real scene. My favorite character was actually Jennifer Connelly, because she was so eager to write and report about what is going on in the real world whereas people in the other side of the country might not really know what is going on behind their diamond jewelries. In terms of movie criteria, “Blood Diamond” is a movie that is packed with drama, action and adventure, thus, for the audience this is a very entertaining and educative movie. From this movie I learn of how people in Africa really suffers a lot from poverty until they are willing to risk anything to race for the price, just like how Vandy just want to live a simple life with his family. Again and again, I would say that this movie is a must see movie because of the actors, cinematography, the story itself and most of all is the main theme of the movie. Thus, as a woman who takes diamond as my best friend, perhaps now I would think twice and think that my diamond is more than just a precious stone.

Blood diamond

Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a fisherman from Sierra Leone Separated from his family when his village attacked by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels. Salomon then forced to work in the diamond fields under the command of Captain Poison. The RUF use the diamonds to fund their war effort, often trading them directly for arms. While working in the RUF diamond fields as a forced laborer, Salomon find a large pink diamond which he hides from RUF. In the prison He met Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio),a diamond mercenary. Archer hears Captain Poison talking to Solomon about the discovery of the large diamond and decides to hunt down the stone. He offer Solomon to give the large pink diamond and he promise him to release him from prison and help him help him find his family in exchange for the diamond. They began the journey, and find Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), a reporter, who helps Solomon find his family. Bowen soon learns that Archer is using Solomon to find his diamond and will eventually steal it for himself. But in the middle of their journey Archer died because he has been shot by the RUF’s man . With the help of Bowen, Solomon trades the diamond to Simmons for a large sum of money and the reunification of his family, making the exchange as Solomon's wife and children deplane from a Lear Jet at a London airport.

blood diamond

Blood diamond is Edward Zwick’s film, who is also film director of ‘Last Samurai’. The film begins with Solomon (Djimon Hounsou), an African fisherman in a small village that is attacked by RUF (Revolutionary United Front), a group of mutineer that creates war in their own country, Sierra Leone (Africa). Solomon saves his family, but he is separated from his family in the process and forced to work in the diamond fields. Here is the bad and good luck that fall upon Salomon. The good luck is he finds an extremely large pink diamond, which he hides from RUF. But the bad luck is when he smuggle the diamond, the boss of RUF detect him and throws him in jail. But before RUF throw him in jail, Solomon successfully keep that diamond for himself in the river bank of Kono. In prison, he met Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), an African soldier which is also diamond smuggler. While in jail for smuggling, Danny learns that Solomon has found and hidden the extremely large diamond .Danny listen to talk about the diamond, and after he’s released he springs Solomon in an attempt to broker a deal that will benefit them. With the help of Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), an American journalist whose romanticism is tempered by a deepening relationship with Danny, Danny and Solomon embark on a journey through rebel land. Danny died in the war.

RUF have failed in getting the diamond so they manipulate Salomon’s son, Dia to take vengeance to Solomon. Solomon try to get back the lost diamond. In his journey, Solomon met Dia, who is now the crew of RUF and also a killer.
In the end, the affection towards his family and the struggle of Solomon could reunite his family and find the lost diamond.

Blood Diamond

Diamond had caused slavery and war in South Africa. The civilians were dragged to work as forced labor only to give their home treasures to foreigners, to white people. They suffered and died while the white people prospered and wealthy. During that time, an African named Solomon Vandy was cruelly separated from his family because of the rebels called RUF that come to his village. He was separated from his family when the RUF caught him and forced him to work as a slave in a diamond mine. Fortunately, Solomon was succeed to hide a very big diamond he found at that mine and escaped from the mine but did not have a chance to bring the diamond with him. Bad for him, the commandant of the RUF retaliated him by kidnapping his son. He started his journey by trying to look for his family. Along his journey, he was then accompanied by Danny Archer, a diamond smuggler and Maddy, an American journalist. They were going through different goals which were related to one another. Solomon was looking for his son, Archer was looking for the diamond Solomon hid, and Maddy was looking for facts happened behind the war. While do the journey as a team, they learned a lot of things about life, friendship, love and sacrificing. After facing a lot of obstacles along the journey, they were finally succeeded in finding Solomon’s family and the diamond. Unfortunately, the victory costs Archer’s life when he was shot while struggling for the diamond. Solomon did not waste the death of his friend, he and Maddy worked together and told the world the true story that beyond the prosperity of Von de Cop –a diamond company– were suffering and death of Africans.